Weekly Highlights: 08/07/2013

Important National Anniversaries

his week in August conjures many ghosts from the past for me
such as the grainy TV image of President Richard Nixon resigning on August 8,
1974. The Library of Congress holdings provide invaluable resources for a
retrospective look at those events. For example, cartoonist Richard
Pryorís rendition of President Richard M. Nixon depicts him tangled in a
spider's web of recording tapes. See: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009617188/

Living large in the American memory this week is the moment
on August 14, 1945 when President Truman formally announced the surrender of
Japan. The Library of Congress photograph of the celebration in Times
Square speaks to the enormity of the moment. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514494/